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Bus Stop Boxer Lyrics
I don't miss where I came from
But each night I dream about being back home
When I wake up in the morning
I'm too tired, tired of being alone
So I get up and go downtown
And pick me out a little piece of ground
Where I can prove something to the world
I can prove something to the world
Don't look at me
I'm the bus stop boxer
Don't look at me
I'm the bus stop boxer
Daddy put us in the truck and
Dropped us off and said good luck, then
One lucky kid waiting for the bus
Made a winner out of one of us
Don't look at me
I'm the bus stop boxer
Don't look at me
I'm the bus stop boxer
Going down by the railroad tracks, where
People know that they better not relax
I'm the man, baby, I am the man
This is where I can make you understand
Don't look at me
I'm the bus stop boxer
Don't look at me
I'm the bus stop boxer
I feel these Lyrics are about outcasts, in this case someone lost ..deranged. a weird man hanging around with its own war in his head. as we would watch his strange behavior. at a bus stop as for example.. yet not knowing what is wrong with this dude. so to me this is about a madman fighting with hard things from his past and more generaly this text by E makes me think about how life wrecks people, and leaves most of them isolated confused and lonely in their madness and among others to whom he only appears as a freaking bus stop boxer.
And this combined with wolftickets comment above is exactly what I get from this song, the personal war being waged in the subjects head is the act of desperation to find meaning.
And this combined with wolftickets comment above is exactly what I get from this song, the personal war being waged in the subjects head is the act of desperation to find meaning.
"I don't miss where I came from But each night I dream about being back home"
Are among my favourite opening lines to any song. It beautifully sums up the ambivalence towards your home when you have been displaced.
I think this song is about a desperation to find meaning.
I aggree with you completely here. I can only but derive the same meaning here that you do.
I aggree with you completely here. I can only but derive the same meaning here that you do.
I'd like to know what someone else's intepretation of the song is, because I have no idea what a Bus Stop Boxer is.
I really like this song...I don't really understand it either but the lyrics mean alot to me as I have been away from home for so long.
I think that this song Is about a guy who was abandoned with his siblings by his father. They were wandering around and the guy wanted to support his family, so he started to make money from street fighting. The bit at the beginning about not missing home is saying that he doesn't miss it, cos he hates his dad, but he still dreams about it. May not be right, but it made sense to me.
e said it was about some engineer or something who said his dad used to take him and his brothers to a bus stop and have them run out and beat a kid waiting for the bus up and the first one to get a punch in was the winner
yeah
hopefully i'll never meet this bus stop boxer guy. even though he wants to be the man. I mean there must be other ways...
battaryacid is right.an engineer doing work on an eels cd told e a story about when he was a kid the next day e recorded bus stop boxer
now the song finally makes sense :)
Well I could of swore it was about E He was homeless for a while If I'm wrong I'm sorry
xo